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CARL HAGENBECK’S GREAT ZOO AT HAMBURG 
The queerest exporter and importer 
in the world is Mr. Carl Hagenbeck of 
Hamburg, Germany. Wherever animal 
life is seen, in zoo or park, the circus 
or on the stage one at once thinks of, 
Hagenbeck. 
Hagenbeck is an international insti- 
tution and is practically a monopolist in 
his line. 
Visitors to the Hagenbeck plant are in- 
variably surprised at the completeness 
of its arrangements. John Robinson, Jr., 
the circus man, just returned from there, 
talks interestingly of the establishment. 
“The way the animals are set out, on 
their importation into Germany is cer- 
tainly wonderful,’’ he says. “All of them 
look as if they were in their native land. 
Rocks and caverns, of cement or stone, 
are placed about the runs of animals 
which frequent rocky lairs in their wild 
state. 
“With every class of animal is this 
YOUNG KANGAROO IN THE ZOO. 
true. For the polar bears, seals and the 
like, for instance, imitation blocks of ice 
are fashioned. Then there are natural 
forests in which one comes upon deer 
and antelope. Streams and rock fences 
that are scarcely noticed until the atten- 
tion is drawn to them, serve to keep one 
kind of animal out of the domain of the 
others." 
Hagenbeck has over forty, acres given 
to these animals. The tract is located 
within a mile and a half of the heart of 
Hamburg, and gives the people a prac- 
tical zoological park. 
At the heart of the estate, Hagen- 
beck himself, and his two sons Henry 
and Lorenze, live in a palatial home. 
“Their exports are not all mammoth 
animals. The elephants are in profusion, 
and his stock ranges from them down 
to humming-birds. Of the elephants 
just now there is a herd of sixteen at 
Hamburg. 'I'here is no other institu- 
tion just like this in the world," says 
i\fr. Robinson. Felix J. Koch. 
NEW PARKS, IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS 
About 2,500 trees and shrubs, of which 
1,000 have been ordered, are to be 
planted in the parks of Ogden, Utah, 
this spring. 
Sites for five small parks are soon to 
be selected in Cleveland. O. 
C. F'. Foster and W. N. Wodson have 
presented Corning, Cal., a block of 
ground in the center of the cit}' for a 
public park. 
Dana F. Dow, of Ipswitch, Mass., is 
making plans for the improvement of 
Hubbard Park, Montpelier, Vt. 
Louis Boeglin, head gardener of the 
Minneapolis parks, recently returned 
from a trip to Europe where he has 
collected some new and rare plants for 
the Minneapolis parks. Among the bed- 
ding plants which he has brought with 
him are many old varieties which have 
been lost to the commercial market for 
years, and can now only be obtained in 
private gardens. Variegated tobacco 
plants, rare varieties of begonias, a spe- 
cies of banana tree hardy enougli to 
grow in that climate and some of the 
best varieties of German geraniums are 
in Mr. Boeglin’s collection. 
Senator McCall has introduced into 
the New York legislature a bill provid- 
ing for the appropriation of $1,500,000 
to be used in giving work to the unem- 
ployed in the parks of New York City. 
The Senate at Washington has passed 
a bill donating a ten-acre tract of gov- 
ernment land at Enid, Okla., to that city 
for a public park. 
The Park and Pleasure Drive Asso- 
ciation of Janesville, Wis., has a fund of 
$12,000 subscribed for park improve- 
ments. A tract known as Goose Island 
is to be improved as a park. 
A museum of natural history con- 
taining many specimens of the wild ani- 
mals, birds and flora of the mountain 
regions has been opened at the City Park 
in Denver. 
Improvements at Glen Miller Park, 
Richmond, Ind., this spring, will include 
the building of a stone house over the 
spring and an addition to the Zoological 
collection. 
The East .Side Improvement Associa- 
tion of Topeka, Kan., is raising fundi; 
for the purchase of a ten-acre tract for 
a park. 
Improvements in Royal Park, Pueblo, 
Colo., will include the tearing down of 
the stone wall and fence inclosing the 
park and extensive terracing at the 
northern end. 
Mrs. Russell Sage has given $1 (>,()()() 
for the establishing of a playground and 
athletic field near the Pierson High 
School, Sag Harbor, L. I. 
General William J. Palmer has pre- 
sented to Colorado Springs, Colo., a five- 
acre tract on Boulder Creek for a pub- 
lic park. 
The mayor of Philadelphia announces 
that the great parkway from City Hall 
to Fairmount Park is soon to be begun. 
A new shell road is to be built and 
other improvements made in the City 
Park in New Orleans. 
Thos. Dinsmore has given to the town 
of Palermo, Me., an acre of land in the 
center of town for a park. 
A new greenhouse to cost $10,000 is 
to be built in Wright Park, Tacoma, 
Wash., from plans by I. J. Knapp. 
The Board of Local Improvements of 
Chicago is preparing plans for the as- 
sessments to build the connecting boule- 
vard between the south and north sides 
over the Chicago river. It is estimated 
that the work will cost $800,000. 
Carlton B. Leckie, gardener of the 
South Park System, Chicago, is on a 
tour of Texas and the Southwest to col- 
lect Cacti and other southern plants for 
the .South Parks. 
The Board of Estimate of Rochester, 
N. has granted the park board $109,- 
000 for the current year, of which $15,- 
000 is for road building in the New 
Durand-Eastman tract recently presented 
to the city. The board this year will run 
the pavilion in Seneca Park under its 
own management instead of leasing it 
out as formerly. Miss Frances A. Baker 
has presented to the city a tract of 12o 
acres for an addition to Genesee Valley 
Park, making the total area of this park 
5.')() acres. 
